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Yahoo! News: World - China


Nine alive after week in flooded China mine (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Apr 2010 06:12 PM PDT

Reuters - Nine miners trapped in a flooded coal mine in northern China were rescued early on Monday after 179 hours underground, with signs that others may also still be alive in the shaft, Chinese media reported.

9 rescued after 179 hours in flooded Chinese mine (AP)

Posted: 04 Apr 2010 05:33 PM PDT

Rescue workers carry a survivor on a stretcher to a waiting ambulance at the Wangjialing Coal Mine in Xiangning county in north China's Shanxi province, Monday, April 5, 2010. State television says nine workers have been pulled to safety after spending more than a week trapped in a flooded coal mine in China. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - Nine miners were pulled to safety early Monday after spending more than a week trapped in a flooded coal mine in northern China, a rescue that had seemed beyond hope for days before crews heard someone tapping from deep underground.


U.S. delays China yuan ruling ahead of Hu visit (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Apr 2010 02:50 PM PDT

Employees deal with U.S. dollar and Renminbi yuan banknotes at a branch of Huaxia Bank in Shenyang, Liaoning province April 1, 2010. REUTERS/Sheng LiReuters - U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Saturday he was delaying an April 15 report on whether China manipulates its currency but pledged to press for a more flexible Chinese currency policy.


Nine rescued alive from flooded China mine: state TV (AFP)

Posted: 04 Apr 2010 01:26 PM PDT

Rescuers head to the entrance to the Wangjialing coal mine to try to find more than 150 workers trapped in the flooded coal mine being built in northern China's Shanxi province on March 31, 2010. Nine workers have been rescued alive from a Chinese coal mine, more than a week after the vast facility flooded trapping 153 miners underground, state television said early Monday.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - Nine workers were rescued alive from a Chinese coal mine early Monday, more than a week after the vast site flooded trapping 153 miners underground, state television said.


Nine rescued alive from flooded China coal mine: state TV (AFP)

Posted: 04 Apr 2010 10:52 AM PDT

Rescuers head to the entrance to the Wangjialing coal mine to try to find more than 150 workers trapped in the flooded coal mine being built in northern China's Shanxi province on March 31, 2010. Nine workers have been rescued alive from a Chinese coal mine, more than a week after the vast facility flooded trapping 153 miners underground, state television said early Monday.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - Nine workers have been rescued alive from a Chinese coal mine, more than a week after the facility flooded trapping 153 miners underground, state television said early Monday.


White House: Iran not why currency report delayed (AP)

Posted: 04 Apr 2010 07:18 AM PDT

AP - The White House denies any connection between delaying a report on China's currency policies and seeking China's cooperation on new penalties against Iran for its nuclear program.

Mekong River countries meet China over dam fears (AFP)

Posted: 04 Apr 2010 06:53 AM PDT

People sit fishing on a bank of the drought-hit Mekong River in Vientiane, Laos. Southeast Asian nations on the shrinking lower Mekong River have begun talks with China over fears that its dams are further depleting the waterway which is at its lowest levels in decades.(AFP/File/Hoang Dinh Nam)AFP - Southeast Asian nations on the shrinking Mekong River began talks with China Sunday over fears that its dams are further depleting the waterway which is at its lowest levels in decades.


Kim hosts Chinese ambassador amid trip reports (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 11:53 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 29, 2010 file photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency on March 30, 2010, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il poses for photos with Liu Hongcai, new Chinese ambassador to North Korea, unseen, in Pyongyang, capital of North Korea. A special train from North Korea arrived in a Chinese border city amid speculation of a visit to the country by Kim Jong Il, a news report said, though the reclusive leader's whereabouts remained unclear. . (AP Photo/Xinhua, Chinese Embassy in Pyongyang, File) ** NO SALES **AP - North Korea's Kim Jong Il hosted a weekend dinner in Pyongyang for the new Chinese ambassador, state media reported Sunday, indicating the reclusive communist leader has not embarked on a much-speculated trip to Beijing.


Iran says China agrees sanctions ineffective (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 07:28 PM PDT

Reuters - Iran and China agreed during talks in Beijing that sanctions "have lost their effectiveness," chief Iranian nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili said on Friday after meeting senior Chinese officials.

CORRECTION: Iran envoy: China agrees sanctions "not effective" (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 07:20 PM PDT

A man walks across the seal of the Central Intelligence Agency at the lobby of the CIA headquarters in McLean, Virginia. The reported defection of an Iranian scientist to the United States has renewed speculation about a CIA plot to sabotage Iran's nuclear program through covert action.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Alex Wong)Reuters - (Corrects story issued on April 2 to clarify envoy said threat of sanctions in relation to nuclear fuel swap proposal unacceptable, not referring to the proposal itself, paragraph 2)


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